The 12-screen Empire Cinemas complex will create 45 new jobs ahead of the grand opening this winter, when it will join Cineworld as the second cinema in Ipswich.

The Buttermarket Centre will become a £35m pleasure palace

The cinema will include two large IMPACT screens, which feature stadium seating and extra leg room.

Appointed as general manager is Adam Root, who comes to Ipswich from the Walthamstow branch.

He said: “I am really excited to take on the stewardship of the brand new state-of-the-art cinema in Ipswich.

“I lived in Ipswich for a couple of years as a child and still have family there so it will be great to be working in a town that I already hold great affection for. We have some fantastic plans for the new cinema and I can’t wait to get started with them.”